Re: making KDE WM read my .xprofile
On Wed 18 Feb 2015 at 00:05:16 +0530, Sivaram Neelakantan wrote:
>
> For some reason that I haven't figured out yet, my screen estate is
> not used fully by Debian and I had some black bands around the edges
> of the WM. Reading around, I found a combination of gtf and xrandr
> with a rather painful way of discovering that my screen is 1366 x 652
> in size.
>
> xrandr --newmode "1360x652_60.00" 71.28 1360 1416 1560 1760 652 653 656 675 -HSync +Vsync
> xrandr --addmode Virtual1 1360x652_60.00
> xrandr -s 1360x652_60.00
>
> I plug this into a .xprofile and chmod +x it and reboot, my screen
> doesn't reset. if I manually execute .xprofile, the screen gets
> changed to what I want. Where do I start looking to fix this such
> that it gets set upon login into kdm? There is a .xsession-errors
> file but that didn't seem to have anything interesting.
>
> I used a live cd KDE install that is now upgraded to Jessie and so I
> boot into KDE desktop upon login.
>
> Appreciate some pointers to debug this.
What leads you to believe a .xprofile has any significance on Debian?
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